A weekend away...

Dave and I snuck away for a quick weekend trip to Chicago with our GE clan.  It was weird but in all the times we've been to Chicago we haven't taken the opportunity to be tourists until this trip.  We kicked back and soaked it all in.  The weather was AMAZING!  80 degrees all weekend.  We stayed at The Drake and ventured up and down Michigan Avenue all weekend.  We even saw some familiar faces.

This isn't what I mean by "familiar faces", Dave...

One nice thing about not traveling with your kids is you are able to act silly and just say "hey - it's a picture for the kids..."

Another familiar surprise while coming into town - Kroll's!  Yummy!  Fancier than the GB restaurants, but the same GREAT food.  Yum yum Yummy!!!  We walked 6.5 miles down Michigan Avenue to get there, but it was well worth it. 

Saturday night we had a great steak dinner at the Rosebud Steakhouse and went to see the musical "Rock of Ages".  It was so good, I don't know if I can bring myself to see the movie version.  Tom Cruise may ruin it for me.  I'd like to remember it as perfect as it was on stage.  Combined with a fun evening with friends, it topped off the weekend. 
The kiddos had a blast at home with Grandma and Grandpa R all weekend.  Annabelle didn't even notice we weren't there.  She did great with them all weekend.  Andrew, of course, couldn't wait for us to leave.  He was pretty excited when we returned though, probably because he knew we got him something.